Almagro

Full name	Club Almagro
Nickname(s)	El Tricolor
Founded	6 January 1911
Ground	Estadio Tres de Febrero, José Ingenieros, Buenos Aires province (Capacity: 19.000)
Chairman	Rafael Cianflone Mottola
Manager	Marcelo Straccia
League	Primera B Nacional
2008-09	20th (Relegated to Primera B Metropolitana)
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Club Almagro is a sports club in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with a professional football team currently playing in the regionalised 3rd division of Argentine football (Primera B Metropolitana). It was founded on 6 January 1911 in the Almagro neighbourhood of Buenos Aires.

The club still has several sports facilities in Almagro for its members, but the Almagro football stadium is located in 2223 Marcelo T. de Alvear, José Ingenieros, Buenos Aires province and has a capacity of 19 000.

Almagro played one year in first division in 1938 after winning the first second division tournament that awarded a promotion. Later the team won the 1968 second division tournament, but had to participate in the Reclasificatorio tournament with first division teams and other second divisioners and didn't won the promotion. The Tricolores played most of the time in second division, a few years in third division, but in 2000 and 2004 they won the promotion to first division, only to be relegated both times after only one season.

[edit] Titles

The Almagro team that won the 2nd division in 1937

Argentine Second Division:

• Segunda División 1937
• Clausura 1996
• Primera B 1968

Argentine Third Division:

• Primera C 1971

[edit] Notable former players

[edit] External links

• Almagro's official site (Spanish)
• Almagro's unofficial page (Spanish)
• El sitio de Almagro - El diario tricolor digital (Spanish)
• Almagro mi pasión-La pagina del hincha (Spanish)
• Almagro de mi vida-La revista tricolor (Spanish)
• Azul, Blanco y Negro. Si sos de Almagro, entrás (Spanish)